There are 86 streets covering the 21 wards of this Municipality. Padmanabhapuram Municipality is maintaining the roads as given below:
Cement Concrete Roads :22.26 Kms.
Bitumen Roads :22.75 Kms.
Earthern Roads : —
Total :45.01 Kms.
Besides state High ways and Rural roads to the length of 8.8 Kms. are also passing
through the Town.
At present 27Nos. of c.c road works were taken up under Special Road Programme 2010-2011
at an estimate cost of Rs. 175.64Lakhs. Out of 27 Road works , 27 works completed.
The road network is well established in the region; as State Highway, which
connects Nagercoil to Trivandrum passes through this town south east to
North West directions and surrounding urban centres are well connected
by Roads.
Municipal Roads
Padmanabhapuram Municipality maintains 45.01 Km of roads.
Local Road Network Details
| Surface type | Km | Road maintained by State High ways | Total length |
| Cement Concrete | 22.26 | – | 22.26 |
| Bituminous | 22.75 | 6.41 | 29.16 |
| WBM | – | – | – |
| Earthen | – | ||
| Total | 45.01 | 6.41 | 51.42 |
| Ward wise Road details | ||
| Ward No. | B.T road (in Km) | Cement Concrete road(in Km) |
| 1 | 0.767 | 0.819 |
| 2 | 0.699 | 0.78 |
| 3 | 0.92 | 1.32 |
| 4 | 0.78 | 1.097 |
| 5 | 0.68 | 0.75 |
| 6 | 0.75 | 0.96 |
| 7 | 0.678 | 0.78 |
| 8 | 0.76 | 0.82 |
| 9 | 0.55 | 1.36 |
| 10 | 0.65 | 1.42 |
| 11 | 0.78 | 0.46 |
| 12 | 0.69 | 0.36 |
| 13 | 0.85 | 2.067 |
| 14 | 1.66 | 0.895 |
| 15 | 0.805 | 1.45 |
| 16 | 0.69 | 1.29 |
| 17 | 0.65 | 0.57 |
| 18 | 1.08 | 0.267 |
| 19 | 0.89 | 0.627 |
| 20 | 0.575 | 0.567 |
| 21 | 0.76 | 0.701 |
| Total | 22.75 | 22.26 |